Wilhelm Buechs

Wilhelm Buechs (17 September 1894-4 May 1967) was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Wilhelm Buechs was born in Swinemunde, German Empire (now Swinoujscie, Poland) in 1894, and he fought in World War I as an Imperial German Army soldier. After the war, Buechs joined the Nazi Party, blaming Germany's defeat on the Jews and the socialist November Revolution. From 1918 to 1920, he took part in the suppression of communist and socialist uprisings in Germany as a Reichswehr officer, and he would join the Nazi Party in 1928. Buechs was given command of the Wehrmacht's 45th Infantry Division in early 1936 when Adolf Hitler expanded the military, and Buechs was sent to the border with Poland. In 1939, his division would take part in the invasion of Poland, and Buechs later saw action on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1945, he surrendered to British Army troops in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and he was paroled. He died in Munich, Bavaria in 1967.